Hey cupcakes! Inaword...fab's personal beauty reviewer and resident guinea pig, Lady D., is back and she is ready to chat-bout the personal pedicure system, The Ped Egg! Let the drama ensue...
Summertime means sandaltime, and with the beginning of the warm season we are bombarded with a bevy of foot care products to help with the tootsy-baring transition. Personally, those flimsy lotions and creams that proclaim to work miracles do nothing to soften my winter-hardened, Timberland-wearing-on-the-weekend heels (all Brooklyn girls love Timberlands), so when the Ped Egg infomercials began to air, I thought "Ingenious!" and reached for my Visa. (Oh, by the way, no need to order online or via informercial anymore, Ped Eggs are now available everywhere, including the ubiqituous Bed Bath and Beyond chain.) I mean, $10, what the hey...let's give it a try. And so began my strange journey into....well, let me explain, a-hem....
So, let me just say, the Ped Egg is effective. The little blades on the apparatus are serious. However, therein lies the problem! I overestimated the terribleness of my heels and went a bit crazy, scrubbing and slothing while enjoying a riveting episode of some mindless reality show. I probably did this for all of 5 or 6 minutes per foot, and finished my spa night by slathering on some thick-ass lotion and some socks. The next morning, my heels and the bottom of my feet were as smooth as a baby's tushy, looked great and felt great. I was excited, yall.
Around midday, however, as I'm stomping around in my heels at work, my left heel begin to sting. By the end of the evening, it was red and quite sore. Methinks I overdid it with the Ped Egg! I figured I would rub on some ointment and be OK in a few days, lesson learned. No, it wasn't that easy. The redness didn't go away. My left heel actually developed cracks where it was sore. What the.....? Are you kidding? I thought the Ped Egg was supposed to cure these ills? So I go online to my Bible of all things random, Google. And while there is a great many words of praise out there for this product, there are a few warnings. Short take-home message: be careful not to overdo it with the scrubbing, as the blades may cut too deep and cause infection. Great. I found a few complaints about soreness too. Lovely.
So, my sweets, unless your feet are Godzilla-like (ie- crusty man feet), I mean seriously rough and tough, there is really no need to use this product.....a simple pummus stone or footboard will do. An infection really is not worth it. Even I, who is not one to do the weekly pedicure thing, didn't need it as much a I thought. However, if your dogs look as if you have been walking for forty days and forty nights in the hot Middle Eastern sands with Moses and 'nem, and would like to give it a whirl, please, please, PLEASE, do me a favor and do not slough for more than a minute or so in a particular area, and slather generously with a heavy cream afterwards. Use no more than once a week! Because honestly, if you have super-thick calluses, your problems are bigger than the Ped Egg; hit up the podiatrist pronto.
Therefore: a big thumbs DOWN for the Ped Egg. I had high hopes. Too bad, so sad. AND, let me just say, I must give a pinky finger down as well for this product, as the cup-like part that's supposed to hold the foot shavings actually does not. You see, the shavings fall out of the holes near the blades, so that your cruddy foot shavings fall all over your sofa and floor. Nastiness. Yet another reason to stick with a regular foot file!
-Lady D.
